Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year is any kind of yardstick, the Faculty might as well not bother to clamber up the steps of University Hall to convene at all. Members of the Faculty Council, which simplifies and then forwards proposals to the full Faculty, are predicting that 1981-82 could be unusual for the very dearth of controversial issues that could confront the Faculty. Though the year is bound to contain some surprises--like the fairly sudden emergence of last year's technology transfer issue--the preliminary Faculty agenda looks about as empty as Ronald Reagan's White House in August...
Your article about my confirmation hearings, "Requiem for a 'Do-Gooder' " [June 15], touches briefly on the real issue, which was ideological. You then drop the subject and pick up the gossip. The point in question was President Carter's use of a rubber yardstick, which emphasized the human rights abuses by our friends more than the abuses by our adversaries...
President Reagan is determined to use one moral yardstick...
...idea behind the set-up was not to encourage the separate management units to compete to make the most money, but rather to provide HMC with close ties to the financial world, allowing it to gain advice from the outside firms as well as use them as a yardstick to measure how well it was doing...
...patience was amply rewarded. The wave lengths of celestial light had been drastically stretched, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum-an effect comparable to a familiar terrestrial one: the lowering of a horn's pitch as a car speeds away from an observer. From that yardstick, the astronomers calculated that the galaxies were receding from earth at more than half the speed of light, or better than 93,000 miles per sec. Since objects with higher velocities are presumed to be more distant in a universe that seems to be expanding at a uniform rate, scientists...